Use nginx to serve static files from subdirectories of a given directory

I have several sets of static `.html` files on my server, and I would like use nginx to serve them directly. For example, nginx should serve an URI of the following pattern: www.mysite.com/public/doc/foo/bar.html with the `.html` file that is located at `/home/www-data/mysite/public/doc/foo/bar.html`. You can think of `foo` as the set name, and `bar` as the file name here. I wonder whether the following piece of nginx config would do the job: server { listen 8080; server_name www.mysite.com mysite.com; error_log /home/www-data/logs/nginx_www.error.log; error_page 404 /404.html; location /public/doc/ { autoindex on; alias /home/www-data/mysite/public/doc/; } location = /404.html { alias /home/www-data/mysite/static/html/404.html; } } In other words, all requests of the pattern `/public/doc/.../....html` are going to be handled by nginx, and if any given URI is not found, a default `www.mysite.com/404.html` is returned.